A must-read for anyone contemplating motherhood and a bible for all of us whose lives have been warped, splendored, and expanded by our dear little ones.
Austin Chronicle

Essays by these mothers who think deal with sweet, the sour, and the unthinkable.
Mirabella

Irreverent, passionate, and wonderfully readable.
The Charlotte Observer

Wistful, tender, hilarious...will move you the way only good writing can.
Chicago Tribune

[These] essays...are not so much issues as personal truths, spun out with equal parts observation, honesty, and good humor. They are sad, and funny, and poignant, and real.
Los Angeles Times

Finally, we who share the joy and the fury can share a book that embraces both and, unlike any other book on the subject, invites us to honor ourselves for simply doing the best we can.
Ms. Magazine

Trade the parenthood guides in for this collection of provocative essays. I read most of them late at night on Salon, the Internet magazine, and revisited, they come alive again. The sheer intelligence and range of these mothers…enlarge the world of motherhood.
Chicago Tribune

This book is a lot like motherhood itself full of joy, trauma, insanity, hard work, exhaustion, and more than a few good laughs.
Miami Herald

A must-read for anyone contemplating motherhood and a bible for all of us whose lives have been warped, splendored, and expanded by our dear little ones.
Austin Chronicle (TX)

Most popular press articles on the joys and tribulations of mothering are mildly insulting. Good friends may share true feelings with you, but not the press. [The web site] "Mothers Who Think" is where you go when you realize you've been duped...Heartfelt, exuberant essays...Funny, straight-talking...
The Bellingham Herald (WA)

Full of dames both besotted and fed up...Essays by these mothers who think deal with the sweet, the sour, and the unthinkable.
Mirabella

Here, at last, is a parenting book for those of us who have made the desperate search for some literature (any literature!) that reflects our own intense, horrific, hilarious, joyful, maddening, bewildering, sublime experiences as mothers.
Minnesota Parent

Motherhood, apple pie, angst. This book offers proof that good parenting exists on many levels...Reflective and crisply written.
New York Newsday